Author: J. Marshall Craig
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429889755
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
The East Asian War of 1592 to 1598 was the only extended war before modern times to involve Japan, Korea, and China. It devastated huge swathes of Korea and led to large population movements across borders. This book draws on surviving letters and diaries to recount the personal experiences of five individuals from different backgrounds who lived through the war and experienced its devastating effects: a Chinese doctor who became a spy; a Japanese samurai on his first foreign expedition; a Korean gentleman turned refugee; a Korean scholar-diplomat; and a Japanese Buddhist monk involved in the atrocities of the invasion. The book outlines the context of the war so that readers can understand the background against which the writers’ lives were lived, allows the individual voices of the five men and their reflections on events to come through, and casts much light on prevailing attitudes and conditions, including cultural interaction, identity, cross-border information networks, class conflict, the role of religion in society, and many others aspects of each writer’s world.
Three Tigers, One Mountain
Author: Michael Booth
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1250114071
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
From the author of The Almost Nearly Perfect People, a lively tour through Japan, Korea, and China, exploring the intertwined cultures and often fraught history of these neighboring countries. There is an ancient Chinese proverb that states, “Two tigers cannot share the same mountain.” However, in East Asia, there are three tigers on that mountain: China, Japan, and Korea, and they have a long history of turmoil and tension with each other. In his latest entertaining and thought provoking narrative travelogue, Michael Booth sets out to discover how deep, really, is the enmity between these three “tiger” nations, and what prevents them from making peace. Currently China’s economic power continues to grow, Japan is becoming more militaristic, and Korea struggles to reconcile its westernized south with the dictatorial Communist north. Booth, long fascinated with the region, travels by car, ferry, train, and foot, experiencing the people and culture of these nations up close. No matter where he goes, the burden of history, and the memory of past atrocities, continues to overshadow present relationships. Ultimately, Booth seeks a way forward for these closely intertwined, neighboring nations. An enlightening, entertaining and sometimes sobering journey through China, Japan, and Korea, Three Tigers, One Mountain is an intimate and in-depth look at some of the world’s most powerful and important countries.
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1250114071
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
From the author of The Almost Nearly Perfect People, a lively tour through Japan, Korea, and China, exploring the intertwined cultures and often fraught history of these neighboring countries. There is an ancient Chinese proverb that states, “Two tigers cannot share the same mountain.” However, in East Asia, there are three tigers on that mountain: China, Japan, and Korea, and they have a long history of turmoil and tension with each other. In his latest entertaining and thought provoking narrative travelogue, Michael Booth sets out to discover how deep, really, is the enmity between these three “tiger” nations, and what prevents them from making peace. Currently China’s economic power continues to grow, Japan is becoming more militaristic, and Korea struggles to reconcile its westernized south with the dictatorial Communist north. Booth, long fascinated with the region, travels by car, ferry, train, and foot, experiencing the people and culture of these nations up close. No matter where he goes, the burden of history, and the memory of past atrocities, continues to overshadow present relationships. Ultimately, Booth seeks a way forward for these closely intertwined, neighboring nations. An enlightening, entertaining and sometimes sobering journey through China, Japan, and Korea, Three Tigers, One Mountain is an intimate and in-depth look at some of the world’s most powerful and important countries.
China, Korea and Japan
Author: Gina Lee Barnes
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780500050712
Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Charts the critical developments that culminated in the emergence of this region in the eighth century as a coherent entity, with a shared religion, state philosophy, and bureaucratic structure.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780500050712
Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Charts the critical developments that culminated in the emergence of this region in the eighth century as a coherent entity, with a shared religion, state philosophy, and bureaucratic structure.
Women and Confucian Cultures in Premodern China, Korea, and Japan
Author: Dorothy Ko
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520231382
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
This book rewrites the history of East Asia by rethinking the contentious relationship between "Confucianisms" and "women."
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520231382
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
This book rewrites the history of East Asia by rethinking the contentious relationship between "Confucianisms" and "women."
China, Korea & Japan at War, 1592-1598
Author: J. Marshall Craig
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781138603165
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
The East Asian War of 1592 to 1598 was the only extended war before modern times to involve Japan, Korea, and China. It devastated huge swathes of Korea and led to large population movements across borders. This book draws on surviving letters and diaries to recount the personal experiences of five individuals from different backgrounds who lived through the war and experienced its devastating effects: a Chinese doctor who became a spy; a Japanese samurai on his first foreign expedition; a Korean gentleman turned refugee; a Korean scholar-diplomat; and a Japanese Buddhist monk involved in the atrocities of the invasion. The book outlines the context of the war so that readers can understand the background against which the writers' lives were lived, allows the individual voices of the five men and their reflections on events to come through, and casts much light on prevailing attitudes and conditions, including cultural interaction, identity, cross-border information networks, class conflict, the role of religion in society, and many others aspects of each writer's world.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781138603165
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
The East Asian War of 1592 to 1598 was the only extended war before modern times to involve Japan, Korea, and China. It devastated huge swathes of Korea and led to large population movements across borders. This book draws on surviving letters and diaries to recount the personal experiences of five individuals from different backgrounds who lived through the war and experienced its devastating effects: a Chinese doctor who became a spy; a Japanese samurai on his first foreign expedition; a Korean gentleman turned refugee; a Korean scholar-diplomat; and a Japanese Buddhist monk involved in the atrocities of the invasion. The book outlines the context of the war so that readers can understand the background against which the writers' lives were lived, allows the individual voices of the five men and their reflections on events to come through, and casts much light on prevailing attitudes and conditions, including cultural interaction, identity, cross-border information networks, class conflict, the role of religion in society, and many others aspects of each writer's world.
Art of China, Korea, and Japan
Author: Peter C. Swann
Publisher: London : Thames and Hudson
ISBN:
Category : Art, Chinese
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher: London : Thames and Hudson
ISBN:
Category : Art, Chinese
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Folk Songs of China, Japan, Korea
Author: Betty Warner Dietz
Publisher: New York : John Day Company
ISBN:
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Twenty-five Oriental folk songs especially loved by the Chinese, Japanese and Korean, are assembled and arranged in this volume; together with origins of the words and music.
Publisher: New York : John Day Company
ISBN:
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Twenty-five Oriental folk songs especially loved by the Chinese, Japanese and Korean, are assembled and arranged in this volume; together with origins of the words and music.
China, Korea & Japan at War, 1592–1598
Author: J. Marshall Craig
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429889755
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
The East Asian War of 1592 to 1598 was the only extended war before modern times to involve Japan, Korea, and China. It devastated huge swathes of Korea and led to large population movements across borders. This book draws on surviving letters and diaries to recount the personal experiences of five individuals from different backgrounds who lived through the war and experienced its devastating effects: a Chinese doctor who became a spy; a Japanese samurai on his first foreign expedition; a Korean gentleman turned refugee; a Korean scholar-diplomat; and a Japanese Buddhist monk involved in the atrocities of the invasion. The book outlines the context of the war so that readers can understand the background against which the writers’ lives were lived, allows the individual voices of the five men and their reflections on events to come through, and casts much light on prevailing attitudes and conditions, including cultural interaction, identity, cross-border information networks, class conflict, the role of religion in society, and many others aspects of each writer’s world.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429889755
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
The East Asian War of 1592 to 1598 was the only extended war before modern times to involve Japan, Korea, and China. It devastated huge swathes of Korea and led to large population movements across borders. This book draws on surviving letters and diaries to recount the personal experiences of five individuals from different backgrounds who lived through the war and experienced its devastating effects: a Chinese doctor who became a spy; a Japanese samurai on his first foreign expedition; a Korean gentleman turned refugee; a Korean scholar-diplomat; and a Japanese Buddhist monk involved in the atrocities of the invasion. The book outlines the context of the war so that readers can understand the background against which the writers’ lives were lived, allows the individual voices of the five men and their reflections on events to come through, and casts much light on prevailing attitudes and conditions, including cultural interaction, identity, cross-border information networks, class conflict, the role of religion in society, and many others aspects of each writer’s world.
Empires and Emperors of Russia, China, Korea, and Japan
China, Japan, Korea
Author: Ju Brown
Publisher: Ju Brown
ISBN: 1419648934
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
This book takes an unprecedented comparative approach in examining East Asia. Part in-depth reference, part handy guidebook this manual serves both travelers and students of Mainland China, Japan, and South Korea. Blending detailed maps with history and contemporary cultural similarities and differences, this book provides the most up-to-date information on the pulse of East Asia.
Publisher: Ju Brown
ISBN: 1419648934
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
This book takes an unprecedented comparative approach in examining East Asia. Part in-depth reference, part handy guidebook this manual serves both travelers and students of Mainland China, Japan, and South Korea. Blending detailed maps with history and contemporary cultural similarities and differences, this book provides the most up-to-date information on the pulse of East Asia.
Empires and Emperors of Russia, China, Korea, and Japan
Author: Peter Vay (grof)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description